[C38] Hello from SMX! (wasRe: Hello from Bermuda)

[Gus Woods]

I've been watching your progress several times a day and keeping an eye on
the wind (our house in Montserrat is 3 miles NW of the volcano and there has
been almost continuous ashing so I had 2 reasons to care). I was with you
all the way, even on the bad days but those are over for a while so now
enjoy the season!

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 1:27 PM, <david at dlrfilms.com> wrote:

> We were anchor down in Simpson Bay SMX about 1AM this morning.
>
> The tiller was AWESOME! Makes the boat better in every way. Words MUCH
> better with the Aries.
>
> Bermuda to SMX was 9 days. 1 hard day. 1 day of motoring. 3 days of light,
> bad direction frustrating sailing, and 4 days of perfection.
>
> I beat a fish to death with a winch handle and ate it for lunch.
>
> I swam in 15,000 ft of water.
>
> I got sea sick for only the second time in my life. (The first being
> Montauk to Bermuda)
>
> I (finally) satisfied 30 years of curiosity and longing to find out "What
> is it like out there?"
>
> And the boat did great.
>
> Not many photos, but I'll share what I have soon!
>
> -David
> S/V INTEMPERANCE
> Simpson Bay, SMX
>
> > Glad to hear the trip went well...how'd you like the tiller?
> > Steve C-38 #64
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:18 AM, <david at dlrfilms.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello from Bermuda!
> >>
> >> INTEMPERANCE left Montauk on the afternoon of Thursday, October 28 and
> >> arrived in Bermuda on the morning of Thursday, November 5.
> >>
> >> We had five days of sailing hard on the wind, including crossing the
> >> Gulf
> >> Stream on a beat, triple reefed. Didn't mind wind so much, but pounding
> >> into the short seas, hour after hour, day after day wasn't so much fun.
> >>
> >> One day was so light we motored for a few hours. The one day we had the
> >> wind behind us it was about Force 6, and all we had up was a bit of our
> >> mostly rolled up genoa and we were still doing sixes and sevens in front
> >> of a 12 foot sea.
> >>
> >> We've been spending the last week fixing/changing things that broke or
> >> didn't work how we thought they would. Mostly squared away now and
> >> waiting
> >> for a fair weather chance to sail to the islands.
> >>
> >> Bermuda is lovely. I'd count the effort and expense to get here as
> >> worthwhile.
> >>
> >> -David
> >> S/V Intemperance
> >>
> >>
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